My first novel is loaded with food references largely because my cupboards were bare, and I was writing hungry.
Resting metabolic rate is largely genetically determined, but our calorie intake has an effect as well.
Because Utah is largely Mormon country, the firing squad's a little different. You're blindfolded but no cigarette.
I believe that mental health services should be based on the premise that the origins of distress are largely social.
It is good fiction, so largely ignored now, that brings us so much closer to the real facts.
My expenses are largely a fixed, sunken cost, regardless of how much revenue I earn.
If there's something I feel certain of, it is that we're not very aware of each other and that's largely because of social media.
Imitate the magnificent trees that speak no word of their rapture, but only breathe largely the luminous breeze.
The most important thing here is to largely ignore what customers say, and instead watch what they do or track where they spend money.
The American order reveals a method that was largely the outcome of material necessity, as exemplified by the Colonial style and the grid.
I made real sacrifices and took big risks. But living, it seems to me, is largely about risk.
As the son of an immigrant family, I am happy to be a guest in U.S, which was largely built by such families.
I feel as though I am shelved. That I have been given the words to the story of my life, but that I have remained largely unread.
It was Rousseau who was largely responsible for the problem by giving currency to the idea that freedom can exist without responsibility and discipline.
Most procrastination is largely indecision. Someone has said that "hell is just truth seen too late."
Detroit is largely composed, today, of seemingly endless square miles of low-density failure.
The nature of a society is largely determined by the direction in which talent and ambition flow - by the tilt of the social landscape.
While I learned, I hid out largely in the gay community, and overall it kept me very safe.
The media are so key in a national emergency, especially when opposition parties in the U.K. are - let us say - largely in disarray, even leaderless.
People like me, whose income largely comes from dividends, should pay more taxes.
Politics is largely the process of taking credit and putting the blame on others - regardless of what the facts may be.
The story line of my novel [The Kite Runner] is largely fictional. The characters were invented and the plot imagined.
Mastery in poetry consists largely in the instinct for not ruining or smothering or tinkering with moments of vision.
I have lost count of how many wars I have actively and largely ineffectively tried to stop.
We are in the midst of a protracted wage slump, ... a troubling trend that is largely going unnoticed by policymakers.
Maturity is largely about acquiring the confidence and the competence to make your own decisions.
The literature of the inner life is very largely a record of struggle with the inordinate passions of the social self.
Cyber war takes place largely in secret, unknown to the general public on both sides.
Schools are generally feminine places, institutions where conformity is valued, taught largely by conformist women.
Light-skinned privilege is largely through a white lens. It is exploited by oppressive forces... It was always a facade.
I suspect that many of the great cultural shifts that prepare the way for political change are largely aesthetic.
The degree to which society creates wealth, I think, is largely determined by government and financial systems.
Art is one of the means whereby man seeks to redeem a life which is experienced as chaotic, senseless, and largely evil.
In a world that operates largely at random, coincidences are to be expected, but any one of them must always be mistrusted.
To me the Mahabharata is a profoundly religious book, largely allegorical, in a way meant to be a historical record.
I discovered that a diplomat's life is largely entertaining and meeting people. At the end of the day there's nothing. So I gave up.
The Christian community continues to exist because the conclusions of the critical study of the Bible are largely withheld from them.
Fishing largely consists of not catching fish; failure is as much a part of the sport as knee injuries are of football.
When audiences come to see us authors lecture, it is largely in the hope that we'll be funnier to look at than to read.
I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil.
Ive spent my whole life working in a medium that was regarded with contempt largely because of historical reasons.
Traditionally vice presidential debates don't move the needle one way or the other. They have largely been irrelevant and inconsequential.
I am an actress largely in my living room in Clapham Junction! We have the Hollywood sign printed on the wall, though!
The reflection of the current social paradigm tells us we are largely determined by conditioning and conditions.
The physicians are the natural attorneys of the poor, and the social problems should largely be solved by them.
The societies to which I have been exposed seemed to me largely machines for the suppression of women.
Those indoctrinated by leftist thinking become largely incapable of making accurate moral judgments.
In every waking hour a sacred theater is in session, played out before an audience that is largely blind.
I don't see (subprime mortgage market troubles) imposing a serious problem. I think it's going to be largely contained.
Germany's strength lies largely in the fact that the Federal Republic is a center of industry and that it's an export nation.
These human experiments have gone largely unchallenged and unquestioned by Congress, the medical profession, and the scientific community at large.
The United States as we know it today is largely the result of mechanical inventions, and in particular of agricultural machinery and the railroad.
Science, also, is most largely indebted to these beauty-loving Greeks, for truth is one form of loveliness.
For a gut punch of nostalgia, consider that Saturday morning cartoons are now largely a thing of the past.
Spending on largely ineffective programs - although well intentioned - is a detriment to fostering real job growth.
In the past, on Earth, it has largely been to exploit foreign resources and to expand the domestic territory.
The misconception that aid falls straight into the hands of dictators largely stems from the Cold War era.
The common interests very largely elude public opinion entirely, and can be managed only by a specialised class.
What is the professor's function? To pass on to numskulls a body of so-called knowledge that is fragmentary, unimportant, and largely untrue.
'Stay with Me' started out being very political, largely because I'm a little obsessed with politics.
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